Clinton’s support dropping among women

Updated 11:07 pm, Monday, September 14, 2015

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waits to be introduced at a campaign event at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee last week.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waits to be introduced at a campaign event at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee last week.

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Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C., last week

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Hillary Clinton’s late-summer swoon has cast a pall over her upcoming fundraising trip to Connecticut, where some of her senior campaign aides regrouped during a staff retreat this weekend.

With new national polling results showing Clinton’s support among Democratic women has tumbled 29 percent since July, those close to the campaign in Connecticut say the focus is to win back women — and coveted Fairfield County donors.

“There’s just not a lot of enthusiasm,” said one top Clinton supporter. “The enthusiasm that was unconditional among African Americans for the first African-American president does not seem to be there for women contemplating the first woman president.”